The next time someone tells you that college football doesn’t have a sense of humor, remind them that somebody thought it was a good idea to let Monte Kiffin finish out his college career trying to figure out how to defend the triple-option.

Bonus amusement: feel the excitement from the Sun Bowl organizers over hosting a 6-7 Georgia Tech squad making a return trip after losing last year.

“I don’t think that was ever part of the discussion,” said Sun Bowl executive director Bernie Olivas of working with the ACC to allow Tech to drop. “We knew what the contract said. We were going to abide by the contract.”